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Minutes, meeting of August 29, 1999, 19:00 GMT to 21:30 GMT") ?>

<p>(A complete transcript of the meeting is <a href="transcript-990829.txt">available</a>)</p>

<p>Present:

<ul>
  <li>Harald Tveit Alvestrand</li>
  <li>Denis Havlik</li>
  <li>Ethan Castor (joined late)</li>
</ul>

<p>Not present:

<ul>
  <li>Dave Jones</li>
  <li>Henry White</li>
  <li>Sanjeev Gupta (mail trouble prevented communication)</li>
</ul>

<h2>Agenda</h2>

<p>The <a href="agenda-990829.php">agenda</a>, sent out by E-mail the day of the meeting,
was approved.</p>

<h3>1) Roll call and approval of minutes</h3>

<p>Harald and Denis were present.</p>

<p>The <a href="transcript-990613.txt">transcript</a> was approved as minutes.</p>

<h3>2) New machine: Rules and conventions</h3>

<p>basic rules:

<ul>
  <li>people who need an account get one</li>
  <li>accounts don't get passwords. They get SSH keys installed. (sent by PGP-signed email
    preferred)</li>
  <li>no login to root from the network; the logs should always tell who is logging in as root</li>
  <li>Denis will take on the lead role in worrying about security once the machine's in place</li>
</ul>

<p>Backup of critical data can be done over the network; Denis offered disk space in
Austria for the database and source code of the counter. (This was copied the next day)</p>

<p>Ethan arrived at this point.</p>

<h3>3) Logo contest: Status and next steps</h3>

<p>Denis' setup for voting was reviewed, and the following dates agreed:

<ul>
  <li>Pre-voting would go on until Sept 12. Then, the board would pick approx. 10 entries.</li>
  <li>Voting would commence on Sept 15, and last until Oct 1.</li>
  <li>The board meets on Oct 3, if possible, and makes the final decision</li>
</ul>

<p>We discussed how to publicize the contest; Ethan Castor volunteered to maintain a Web
page saying what publications the contest should be mentioned in, who has volunteered to
ask them to publish it, and whether it has been published.</p>

<h3>4) User info: What to show, how to secure it</h3>

<p>The shape of the usergroup lists met with approval as a pattern for user info pages.</p>

<p>A discussion on how much control the user should have over what information is shown
about him did not converge much; suggestions of &quot;checkbox per item&quot; and &quot;a
few levels of visibility&quot; were floated.</p>

<p>Changing the &quot;key&quot; concept to be called &quot;password&quot; was not
contentious. There was also agreement that better security should be based on SSL access
to the counter rather than doing more fancy passwords.<br>
Putting the password in a field in the webform, rather than as an Apache login,
seems
reasonable for now.</p>

<h3>5) About that <a href="http://counter.li.org/todo.php">TODO list</a>.....</h3>

<p>Denis' voting script was sent to HTA for perusal in an attempt to prioritize
the TODO
list. When possible..</p>

<h3>6) Any Other Business</h3>

<p>Denis offered the use of his &quot;sort by any criteria&quot; script to generate user-selectable sorts of the country information. Will be acted on. Sometime.</p>

<p>Meeting closed at 21:31 GMT.</p>

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